Virgil Percec#

Membership Number:5494
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Elected:2020
Main Country of Residence:UNITED STATES
Homepage(s):http://web.sas.upenn.edu/percecgroup
ORCID:0000-0001-5926-0489




Present and Previous Positions

  • 1999 - present P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 1993 - 1999 Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
  • 1989 - 1999 Director NSF - Material Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 1986 - 1993 Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 1984 - 1985 Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 1982 - 1983 Assistant Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • 1977 - 1980 Research Associate, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Jassy, Romania
  • 1977 - 1980 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Polytechnic Institute, Jassy, Romania

Fields of Scholarship
  • Organic chemistry
  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Polymer chemistry
  • Dendrimers
  • Cross coupling reactions
  • Catalysis
  • Biological membrane mimics
  • Frank-Kasper phases
  • Chiral phases

Honours and Awards
  • 2018 Listed as "Global Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics based on Web of Science
  • 2016 Listed as “One of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of Our Time” by Thomson Reuters
  • 2016 National Science Foundation Award for Creativity in Research
  • 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University, Bucharest
  • 2015 Cristofor Simionescu Award for Excellence in Macromolecular Chemistry, ACS Romanian International Chapter
  • 2014 Honorary Member, Romanian Society of Chemistry & “Petru Poni” Medal of the Romanian Society of Chemistry
  • 2013 Honorary Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IVA
  • 2012 Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists
  • 2011 Kavli Foundation: Innovations in Chemistry Lecture & Award, American Chemical Society
  • 2009 Honorary Member, The Israel Chemical Society
  • 2008 The Herman F. Mark Medal & The Polymer Award, Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry & Technology
  • 2008 The International Award and Silver Medal of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
  • 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Athens, Greece
  • 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University, Iasi, Romania
  • 2005 Staudinger-Durrer Medal, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2004 American Chemical Society, Award in Polymer Chemistry
  • 2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2002 PTN Polymer Award from the Netherlands
  • 1993 Honorary Foreign Member, The Romanian Academy

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